Interestingly, I am editing a friend's instructions on commencing a meditation practice.Its not ready so I will not offer that particular document yet.Have a look at some of the pinned resources in the meditation forum and also in the introductory resources in the Discovering Theravada Forum.kind regards,

Ben

“No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.” - Cormac McCarthy, The Road

Learn this from the waters:in mountain clefts and chasms,loud gush the streamlets,but great rivers flow silently.- Sutta Nipata 3.725